I would use a step by step strategy. 1) Make a local installation of WP using XAAMP or similarl 2) Get 1.5.1 version from wp repository 3) Import all and check all is fine 4) Do a backup of imported data 5) Get a more recent version like 2.0 or so 6) Update and check … Read more
To copy a WordPress install from A to B, do an SQL dump on site A, and restore it to site B. Then search and replace the DB to swap the old URLs for the new URLs. Make sure to copy over the uploads folder in wp-content. To do the search replace, consider using a … Read more
Ensure that the NEW site is already running the same Theme, and all appropriate Plugins. Generate your export file from your OLD site, ensuring that you export “all content”. Import the file into the NEW site, ensuring that you enable/check the option to download/import all attachments. (It is on the same import step during which … Read more
@import is a convenient CSS shortcut for loading a particular stylesheet (often parent themes or other dependencies), but part of the reason why it’s generally discouraged is due to – as you had mentioned – a small performance hit (stylesheets loaded with @import are not loaded in parallel). Another reason is that by loading stylesheets … Read more
If it is an older version of WP, you need to find out what version of WP generated the database, as WP upgrades the DB most times the files are upgraded and you should incrementally upgrade to also upgrade the database. Look in the wp_options table for option 711 and see what the version is; … Read more
I’ve written a very simple script that is built to do exactly what you’re talking about. Here’s the basic process you’ll want to follow. On the old server, log-in to PHPmyAdmin and export the database. On the new server, log-in to PHPmyAdmin and create your database. You may need to create a new MySQL user … Read more
What do you need to edit and why can’t you edit in the WP editor? Can you use Search RegEx? It’s a plugin to search and replace with grep and regular expressions through content. If you need to develop a regex search string to find certain content, check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/regex
Hook int force_filtered_html_on_import and return FALSE. See ticket #14818. add_filter( ‘force_filtered_html_on_import’ , ‘__return_false’ ); By default this is set to TRUE in wp-includes/ms-default-filters.php.
One option might be to export both XML files, merge them using a file merging tool like http://winmerge.org, delete all posts and replace with the merged version.
You need to increase the upload limit in your php.ini. To increase the maximum upload file size, open your php.ini file in the “xampp/php/php.ini” directory. search for upload_max_filesize and increase the value like : upload_max_filesize = 128M